County: Dublin Site name: Mater Hospital, North Circular Road, Dublin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0970
Author: Melanie McQuade, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd, 27 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715386m, N 735715m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.359044, -6.266541
Monitoring of geotechnical test-pits on the site of the proposed Metro North stop at the Mater Hospital and bulk excavation on the site of the Mater Campus Hospital Development were carried out under the same licence.
The Metro stop is located to the west of Leo Street and five geotechnical pits were dug there. The pits were 0.3m by 0.3m and were hand dug to a depth of 1.2m. Made-ground and garden soils were exposed at the base of the pits. Closed cores were mechanically dug within these pits and subsoil was encountered between 1.7m and 1.98m below present ground. Fragments of late 19th-century ceramics were evident in the test-pits but no archaeological features were identified.
Monitoring of excavation works on the Eccles Street side of the Mater Campus Hospital Development recorded between 0.5–0.7m of post-medieval fill overlying natural subsoil. The subsoil was tan brown silty clay. No archaeological features have been uncovered to date, but further monitoring is scheduled.
